Until recently, pidgins and creoles have generally been viewed as uninteresting linguistic phenomena, being notable mainly for linguistic features they have been said to ‘lack,’ e.g., articles, the copula, and grammatical inflections, rather than those they possess, and those who speak them have often been treated with disdain, even contempt. There is a paucity of historical records the history of serious study of such languages goes back only a few decades and, because of the circumstances of their use, they have often been regarded as being of little intrinsic value or interest. To the best of our knowledge all have existed since time immemorial, but, in comparison with what we know about many ‘fully fledged’ languages, we know comparatively little about them. So, language is a system of communication that enables human to cooperate.Īmong the many languages of the world are a few often assigned to a somewhat marginal position: the various lingua francas, pidgins, and creoles. Communication is a dynamic process of listening, processing and expressing information and meaning between two or more people.

Language is the human capacity for acquiring and using complex systems of communication.

Pidgin and creole in sociolinguistics